“Bases for Migrant Detention Contain Nuclear Waste, Other Toxins
In TYT Investigates by TYT InvestigatesJune 29, 20181 Comment
In TYT Investigates by TYT InvestigatesJune 29, 20181 Comment
The entrance to Fort Bliss in Texas. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.
By Ken Klippenstein
On Monday, Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced that migrant detainees would be housed at two U.S. military bases: Goodfellow Air Force Base and Fort Bliss. What he didn’t mention was that toxic contaminants have been blamed for health problems at these locations.
The Trump administration has not said exactly how many migrants it will place at each of these bases. However, the Pentagon has been told to prepare for up to 20,000 unaccompanied migrant minors and was asked earlier this week to prepare to house up to 12,000 additional migrant family members of all ages.
One of the bases where these migrants will be sent, Fort Bliss, is a U.S. Army post in El Paso, Texas. It has reportedly been contaminated with radioactive waste, in addition to at least four different types of carcinogens.
According to previously unreported court documents, The American Legion, the largest U.S. war veterans organization, was suing the V.A. as recently as 2008 on behalf of a veteran who developed a tumor after alleged exposure to Agent Orange and other caustic chemicals while at Fort Bliss.
The veteran said he experienced direct skin exposure to Agent Orange, a powerful herbicide and defoliant, which he said had been spilled multiple times at the base.
The V.A. claimed there is insufficient evidence to connect the veteran’s cancer and his military service, but there is other evidence—including from the Army itself—that Fort Bliss does contain contaminants.
In 2013, the Army announced that it had detected “radiological contamination” in a weapons storage bunker in Fort Bliss, after a retired Airman alerted the Air Force Safety Office due to fears he had about the expansion of family housing near the base. The Airman, who had worked on the base when it was an Air Force installation, told officials that radioactive materials had been buried underground but well above the water table. (Nuclear weapons had been both stored and maintained there in the 1950s and ‘60s.)”
This article betokens unintentional genocide possibly ( we hope not intended. ) Should not a judicial order be sought to halt this?
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